moonbat wrote: ↑2021-12-16, 00:18
enigma9o7 wrote: ↑2021-12-15, 16:43
others in the community have been doing the xp builds since then, but they recently stopped, and palemoon devs didn't do anything to help prevent it.
Other builds were violating the terms of the open source licenses that Pale Moon uses despite repeated requests to comply.
enigma9o7 wrote: ↑2021-12-15, 16:43
which I hadn't checked out, so based on headlines only, it seemed likely that Pale Moon could be adding official xp support again,
Maybe read the post before assuming,and how exactly does 'new direction in 2022' translate into 'we will again support a long dead proprietary OS that its creator Microsoft have themselves abandoned in 2014' ?
Golly gee. I posted in this thread after I read this thread. But I'd already seen the list of new threads so that was in my mind. I dont read every thread I might want to read, then go back and post in the ones I wanted to post in before. I just go thru a few threads, starting with what seems most interesting, and if I feel like posting, I post then. This is an off topic room anyway, doesn't have to be so serious.
As you said, that XP fork may have been violatilizing license terms, but instead of trying to help resolve that, my understanding is the opposite was done, annoying devs on both sides enough that no more updates are being done. So of course I imagined the new direction could have been being more supportive and helpful of the community, etc, or making official builds for XP and freeBSD. Returning to roots if you will. focusing on what makes Pale Moon special - and one of the things that makes it special is it's the best browser for XP. It's also a good browser for single core and other low resource machines, as everything runs in one process. Good for 32-bit linux too [on P4+ of course, not PIII/AthlonXP without SSE2 - those machines stuck with webkit (epiphany)... but anyways those builds being done by 3rd party person who has not been disillusioned.
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